Autor: Tim Strehle

All the content-based software I know (WCMS, DAM and editorial systems) is built the same way: It stashes its data (content, metadata, workflow definitions, permissions) in a private, jealously guarded database. Which is great for control, consistency, performance, simpler development. But when you’re running multiple systems – each of which is an isolated data silo…

Deborah Fanslow – Who Needs a DAM Librarian? Part II: Information Professionals: A Field Guide: “Information professional specimens often manifest the following dispositions: perpetual curiosity, creativity, technical fluency, a compulsive need to create order out of chaos, and an intense passion for connecting people with information. […] Originating around the turn of the 19th century…

In software, the thing I’m most excited about at the moment is schema flexibility. (I first saw that term in a tweet by Emily Ann Kolvitz.) I think we’re losing a lot of valuable metadata, and business value, because the software we keep our structured data in makes it so hard to change the data…

Laurence Hart – Chaos Reigns at Content Management Vendors: “Cloud had been dismissed before, as clients hadn’t been asking for the cloud. Customers hadn’t asked because they determined that the legacy vendors were the wrong people to ask. […] It wasn’t until last year that they started to realize that a SaaS service was what…

1988: As a teen, I wanted to learn to code but couldn’t afford to buy Turbo Pascal for my Atari ST. Most programming languages (interpreters / compilers) were distributed commercially. There was no Web to download from, someone had to ship floppy disks. 1994: As a student, I loved to have Pascal (commercial but cheap)…

Our DC-X DAM software is one of those DAM systems that (while offering general-purpose DAM functionality) focus on the news/publishing industry. For our newspaper- or magazine-publishing customers, publication metadata is among the most important: Name of the publication, publication date, page number, section name etc. (see DC-X publication data, based on the PRISM standard). This…

A big question at the recent IPTC Machine Readable Rights Workshop was how to get people to adopt a standard for rights metadata. A “business case” would certainly help: There will often be no budget if machine readable rights don’t save money (or even earn it). Below is a short list of possible business cases.…

I had the honor to attend the “Machine Readable Rights Workshop” at the IPTC Autumn 2014 meeting in Frankfurt, Germany today. And to hold a short presentation [PDF] on “Rights Management in the DC-X DAM”. Here’s what I intended to say (the actual talk was a bit shorter): “I’ve been following the IPTC’s work for…